Trust. Love. Awe. Relatability. These feelings are hard enough to provoke when everything else is going well, so how on earth can brands hope to reach these highs when their customers' lives and emotions are in freefall? Onika Simon, intO’s Strategy Director, breaks down the challenges and offers some ‘life-led’ research briefs to bolster business stability during precarious times.
Coronavirus has delivered a new consumer context, presenting businesses with fresh opportunities and threats. If businesses align themselves with their customers now, they will be best-placed to take advantage of the emerging opportunities. If they do not, they risk losing touch or being leapfrogged by competitors. Chloe Amos-Edkins, intO's Research Director, believes that Investment in qualitative research has never been so essential.
As this year has taught us, there’s nothing quite like a global pandemic for disrupting international business plans. As companies around the world are postponing or pivoting their growth strategies, intO’s Business Director, Jonny Jiang, offers five research-led pathways forward.
